Motion-picture theater.



P. M. ERICKSON. MOTION PICTURE THEATER.

APPLICATION man 001.5. 1915.

Patented July 4., 1916.

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. ings, Figure I shows a p PHILIP MOBBISERICKSON, OF BROKLYN, NEW YORK.

MOTION-PICTURE THEATER.

Specication ci. L'etters Patent.

p Patented July 4, 1916.

Application mea october s, 1915. serial m. 54,292.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, PHiLrP MORRIS ERICKSON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York,

fulness o such theaters by an' arrangement` to accommodate, practicably,a larger number of persons which may view the pictures at' a sitting.

In the accompanying diagrammatic' drawan of a? theater embodying myinvention. Such a theater consistsl of theseating section A and theseating section B, openin out from the lobby C. Dis an entrance oortothe lobby C. Pictures from the picture-projecting machine,conveniently located as at P, are projected upon the surface of S,which'isa picture screen constructed' of any translucent material as,for instance, of translucent glass. The translucent screen S, interposedbetween the seating section A and the seating section- B, is viewablefrom any of the seats for persons, as at E, E, which face it andmotion-pictures projected thereupon from the picturepro]ecting machine Pare visible in both seating sections because of the translucency of thescreen S.

Fig. II is a longitudinal section taken on the line K-K in Fig. I.

I claim:

1. The arrangement, ina motion-picture theater, of two seating sectionsfacing each other having the translucentv picture-screen,

viewable from both sections, mterposed between them. y

2. lIn a motion-picture theater, a translucent'picture-'screeninterposed between two seating sections andA viewable 'from both.

PHILIP MORRIS ERICKSON.

